Syria Today 14-3-2013

Posted by abeer on March 14th, 2013

The Local Coordination Committees in Syria

By the end of Sunday, the Local Coordination Committees (LCC) was able to document 132 martyrs, including 6 women, 13 children, and 1 martyr who died under torture: 37 martyrs were reported in Damascus and its suburbs; 35 in the massacre committed by the regime’s army in the area of Tal Barak in Hasakeh; 18 in Daraa; 11 in Aleppo; 6 in Raqqa; 6 in Hama; 5 in Idlib; 1 in Quneitra; 1 in Deir Ezzor; and 1 in Jableh.

The LCC also documented 358 points of shelling across Syria. 27 locations were bombed by warplanes; 3 sites were subjected to Scud missile attacks; and 4 locations were hit by surface-to-surface missiles. 5 locations were subjected to cluster bombing: Najiyeh, Kafr Zeta, Marjeh, Saraqeb, and Taftanaz. 106 locations were shelled using mortars; 124 locations were artillery-shelled; and 90 locations were subjected to rocket attacks.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) clashed with regime forces in 145 areas, and managed to down two warplanes: one a MiG jet in southern Homs, and the other a warplane in Hama. The FSA also sealed off the road linking Hasakeh and Qamishly, and established multiple checkpoints along the road. In Maaret Al-Nouman in Idlib, the FSA blew up materiel and confiscated ammunition along the road to Hish. In Deir Ezzor, the FSA targeted a military police building. In Izraa, Daraa, the FSA targeted the 12th brigade. In Homs, the FSA liberated the ancient citadel, as well as the artillery battalion in Al-Sabgha village in Homs. In Kafrouma, the FSA targeted the Naseh checkpoint. In Daraya the FSA was able to seize a buildig in which several shabbiha and regime soldiers were hiding.

Qunaitra: Fierce shelling in the villages of Beit Tabet and Beit Jen

Damascus: Mazzeh: Regime forces launches raids and detention campaigns in the neighborhood where 12 people were arrested

Daraa: Naima: Fierce artillery shelling was reported in the city

Daraa: Nahteh: Artillery shelling resumes in the town of division 175

Homs: Houla: Fierce artillery shelling from the checkpoint at the water company was directed at residential buildings

Damascus: Sounds of heavy explosion that shake most of the neighborhoods in the capital

Damascus: Yarmkouk Camp: Fierce mortar shelling on the camp

Damascus Suburbs: Zabadani: News of serveral martyrs and wounded wre reported in the shelling and heavy gunfire in the Maamoura area inhibited by fled people

Idlib: Maaret Maasarin: Fierce shelling resumes in the town

Idlib: Jesr Shoghour: Fierce artillery shelling was reported in Bksriya and Armala towns in the western suburb of the city

Hama: Regime forces launched surface-to-surface missiles on the villages of the north country

Damascus: Yarmouk Camp: News about several wounded were reported; in addition, a fire started due to the landing of a GRAD missile in the area

Deir Ezzor: Surface-to-Surface rocket landed around the Immigration and Passports building

Idlib: Saraqeb: Fierce artillery shelling was reported in the city

Qunaitera: Jubata Al-Khashab: A soldier from the UN peacekeeping forces was wounded due to the shelling by regime forces in the city. He was transported for treatment to the UN headquarter near Nabea Al-Fawwar

Homs: Rastan: Heavy shelling using tanks and heavy caliber artillery is reported in the city

Daraa: Izraa: The FSA targeted the 12th brigade of regime forces using mortars

Damascus Suburbs: Darayya: The FSA raided buildings that were occupied by regime soldiers and pro-regime thugs (Shabiha) in the southern part of the city

Qamishli: Heavy gunfire from Qamishli Airport was reported in the city where residents are in a state of panic

Damascus Suburbs: Harasta: Fierce clashes between the FSA and regime forces are reported at the checkpoint in the city

Deir Ezzour: FSA targets the Military Police building with mortar shells and columns of smoke rose over the area

Homs: The FSA liberated the Artillery Battalion located in Dabaa village in the southern suburbs of Homs. During the operation the FSA killed and captured several regime soldiers and seized control of the ammunition and weapons in the battalion site

Homs: Fierce shelling with rocket launchers in the neighborhood of Baba Amro

Damascus Subrubs: Zabadani: Fierce shelling targets the city with tanks, of the checkopoints at the west mountain (JAbal Gharbi) at the same time with heavy firegun of all the checkpoints surrounding the city

Daraa: 6 were martyred after being arrested at the checkpoint of Hamaida Daher garden in the neighborhood of Sabeel and blow up the bus they were traveling to a branch of military security forces by the regime

Homs: FSA took down a MiG warplane in the south of Homs Suburbs

Damascus Suburbs: Harasta: Several fires were reported in the city by the shelling by regime forces

Damascus Suburbs: Otaybeh: Continued fierce shelling in the town in conjunction with the violent clashes between FSA and regime forces stationed at the vegetables company in the central town of Harran Awameed amid intensive flights over the area of surveillance planes

Daraa: Khirbit Ghazalleh: Continued fierce shelling was reported in the town with rocket launchers and 40 rockets have landed in the town within 20 minutes

Damascus Suburbs: Khan Sheih: 5 martyrs of one family were reported by the shelling in the town and they are from Tabqa in Raqqa originally

Daraa: Khirbit Ghazalleh: Renewed artillery shelling was reported in the town

Aleppo: Sfaira: Violent clashes between FSA and the regime forces at the checkpoint of Amoud in an attempt by the regime forces to retake control over it and FSA was able to destroy 4 cars belong to the regime forces

Homs: Qusair: Feirce shelling using rocket launchers targeting the city was reported

Aleppo: Regime forces are trying to break into the Great Mosque and
the legitimate school of library side , which led to violent clashes
with the the free Syrian army, that stopped the regime forces storming

Damascus: Jobar: Continued shelling with heavy artillery and rocket
launchers was reported in the neighborhood

Aleppo: Safira: 3 martyrs and several wounded were reported due to
shelling in the city

Damascus Suburbs: Zamalka: Fierce shelling with mortar shells and
rocket launchers was reported in the town

Idlib: Najiya: Several were wounded including women and children bu
cluster bombs of warplanes

Damascus Suburbs: Otaybeh: 5 were martyred including women and dozens
were wounded by rocket launchers shelling in the town

Homs: Rastan: Warplane shells the city with several missiles and
destroys a large number of buildings

Damascus Suburbs: Mouadamieh: Dozens of martyrs and almost 50 wounded
among them children in critical conditions due to several air strikes
launched by warplane of MiG type in residential neighborhoods in the
city in which Zeitouna Mosque was targeted while the worshippers were
exiting the mosque, also there are remains of martyrs who weren’t
identified yet in addition to the bad humanitarian conditions amid
shortage of materials and medical staff and increased wounded, it is
worth mentioning that the second air strike claimed the life of a
young photographer who was covering the first air strike which hit
several paramedics as well, and the regime continues to target the
city now with artillery and rocket shelling

Raqqah: Airstrikes targets the Air Force Intelligence Building

Aleppo: Hreitan: Wounded were reported due to artillery shelling in the town

Damascus Suburbs: Modamiyeh: Martyrs and dozens injured due to
shelling in residential neighborhoods in the city

Idlib: Bashariyeh: Martyrs, a number of wounded, and homes destroyed
due to an airstrike by an MiG warplane in the city. The warpane
dropped cluster bombs amid artillery shelling. 25 shells have landed
thus far

Hama: The FSA destroys 3 regime cars near the village of Rahjan in the
eastern suburbs

Hama: A young female child was martyred during MiG shelling in the
village of Um Kahaf in the eastern suburbs

Damascus Suburbs: Modamiyeh: Severe artillery shelling targets the
residential neighborhoods in the city from the mountains of the Fourth
Barracks

Damascus: Barzeh: The number of martyrs today and yesterday in the
neighborhood has risen to 10 martyrs during artillery shelling and
regime sniper gunfire under the suffocating siege of the neighborhood

Damascus Suburbs: Zabadani: Renewal of severe shelling in the city
using tanks and artillery. 25 shells have landed in one minute

Aleppo: Sfeira: Severe shelling targets the city along with a convoy
that has proceeded towards the Defense Factories

Idlib: Artillery shelling targets the village of Hantoutain from the
Qarmeed Military Base

Dara’a: Khirbet Ghazaleh: Severe shelling in the town using rocket
launchers, tanks, and heavy artillery

Damascus Suburbs: Zabadani: Renewal of severe shelling in the city
using artillery and tanks

Aleppo: Tal Rafa’at: Warplanes launch airstrikes in the city

Damascus: Jobar: Continuous clashes for a number of hours between the
FSA and regime forces, focusing on the outskirts of the neighborhood

Aleppo: Rasm Assan: Rocket shelling targets the village amid a state
of displacement of the residents

Raqqa: An air strike launched by warplane in the outskirts of the city

Homs: Renewed fierce artillery shelling with rocket launchers and
mortar artillery in Dar Kabira, Khaldieh, and Ghasbieh villages which
led to demolition of a large number of houses and migration of large
number of residents

Daraa: Katiba: Fierce artillery shelling by regime forces in the town

Homs: Fierce shelling with different types of heavy weapons in
Khaldieh neighborhood and fierce clashes were reported in different
sides

Idlib: Taftanaz: Intense low-flying warplane was reported in the
northern countryside and cluster bombs were dropped in Taftanaz

Homs: Dar Kabira: Fierce shelling from Mulook checkpoint with mortars
targets civilians’ houses and smoke is covering the town